Entertainment and Sports Lawyer

Copyright

Heroes For Hire No More: Rethinking The Presumption That Comic Books Qualify As A Work-Made-For-Hire Under The Copyright Act Of 1978

By Dirk Vanover

Copyright ownership battles over the rights to comic book characters have been prevalent over the last two decades.

Entertainment & Sports

New Corporate Form in the World of Professional Sports: How the PBC Can Curb Team Relocation

by Shai Kalansky, Michael Santos, Daniel Irvin, and Susan Mac Cormac of Morrison Foerster

In recent decades, the relocation of professional sport franchises has steadily increased. While there are a multitude of factors that influence franchise relocation.

Internet

2023 Round-Up: Litigation and Industry Updates

Summaries of recent Entertainment and Sports Law cases throughout 2023 focusing on litigation and the industry.

Entertainment & Sports

NFTs vs NFTTs: Non-Fungible Tokens/Not for the Timid

By Peter Dekom

Collectors, gamblers, “investors” looking for new growth niches, trend-setters, owners of what they at least believe are stellar intellectual values, aggregators, agents, brokers, scammers

Entertainment & Sports

2023 ELI Writing Competition Winning Essay: Tickets to Ride: NFTs and the Future of Concert Ticketing

By Aron Lichtschein

With recent Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny ticketing fiascos, the case can be made for NFTs to be used to help address the ills currently plaguing ticketing in the live music sphere.

Entertainment & Sports

2023 ELI Writing Competition Runner-Up Essay: Keep Calm and Rock On: A Federal Crowd Management Law for the Live Music Industry

By Gina Maeng

This paper argues for a federal crowd management law that specifically addresses the risks entailing live music performances. It also proposes a technological solution to allay economic concerns of its enactment.

Entertainment & Sports

2023 ELI Writing Competition Runner-Up Essay: Addressing the Music Industry’s Biggest Broken Record: Why Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and NFTs are An Unmatched Solution to the Music Industry’s $424 Million Unmatched Royalty Problem

By Amanda Sharp

Implementing uniform metadata standards confirms every contributor is receiving proper credit, while uploading this data to a central blockchain creates a consistent record of ownership data.

Human Rights

Beijing 2022: The Games of Muted Joy

By John T. Wendt

Throughout the run-up to the Games, there were calls to boycott the Games over human rights concerns especially regarding the treatment of ethnic Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.